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Conserved signatures indicate HIV-1 transmission is under strong selection and thus is not a "stochastic" process.
Retrovirology - 24 Feb 2017
Gonzalez Mileidy, DeVico Anthony L, Spouge John L
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Recently, Oberle et al. published a paper in Retrovirology evaluating the question of whether selection plays a role in HIV transmission. The Oberle study found no obvious genotypic or phenotypic differences between donors and recipients of epidemiologically linked pairs from the Swiss cohort. Thus, Oberle et al. characterized HIV-1 B transmission as largely "stochastic", an imprecise and potentially misleading...
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